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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Woman Hollering Creek.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Juan Pedro described as kicking when he says “he hates this shitty house and is going out”?
(a) The television
(b) The cabinets
(c) The oven
(d) The refrigerator

2. What does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?
(a) Use pepper spray
(b) Call the police
(c) Strike back
(d) Run away

3. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that in Seguin there is no “huddled whispering on the church steps each Sunday” because here the whispering begins where at sunset?
(a) The courthouse
(b) The grocery store
(c) The ice house
(d) The riverbank

4. What is the name of Cleofilas’ neighbor to the right when she lives near Woman Hollering Creek?
(a) Trini
(b) Maria
(c) Dolores
(d) Felice

5. What Spanish term does the author use to refer to a rude or indecent person?
(a) Zocalo
(b) Hijole
(c) Grosero
(d) Gritona

Short Answer Questions

1. Cleofilas tells her husband that she has a doctor’s appointment on what day of the week and asks him to take her?

2. Who is the laundromat attendant whom Cleofilas asks about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?

3. What is the name of Cleofilas’ maid of honor at her wedding?

4. How does Cleofilas feel about the name of Woman Hollering Creek?

5. Cleofilas imagines that who will be jealous of her after she’s moved to America and has a nice house?

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